Articles tagged "julie benz"

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Punisher: War Zone (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[24.Mar.09] :. Filmmakers are funny people. The movies they make are a lot like their children, and as with most good parents, they are reluctant to consider said offspring anything other than perfect. Even when...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[15.Jan.09] :. There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.

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Film Review

Punisher: War Zone

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Dec.08] :. The premise is so awful it veers toward sublime: the angry white guy kills everyone.

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This ‘Punisher’ Goes to ‘War’ with the Audience

by Bill Gibron

[5.Dec.08] :. By now, the comic book movie is really nothing new. We’ve already gone through the various phases of adoration - from sycophantic worship to contemplative critical scrutiny. There’s no...

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TV Review

Dexter: Season Three Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. The moral muddling is never resolved in Dexter. The more Dexter (Michael C. Hall) insists on his rightness, the more limited his vision appears.

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Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

 

Sylvester Stallone hopes violence of ‘Rambo’ will get people thinking

by Tom Baker [The Yomiuri Shimbun (MCT)]

[22.May.08] :. TOKYO - Sylvester Stallone fans planning to sit back with a cola and some popcorn to enjoy an hour and a half of escapist fun when Stallone’s new “Rambo” movie opens in Japan this...

 

Dexter

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Feb.08] :. Predictably, the network cut is much more concerned with removing all premium cable language than with obfuscating the utter corruption Dexter embodies and acts out each episode.

 

Sylvester Stallone explains why he brought back Rambo

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[28.Jan.08] :. LOS ANGELES—Sylvester Stallone was in a hurry. He was moving quickly but gracefully down the hall at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles like a young John Rambo - not like an older Rocky...

 

Rambo

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Jan.08] :. That Rambo is by now too old to recover or start again only underlines the film's ultimate point: no one wins this time.

 

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jan.08] :. In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

 

Dexter

by Michael Abernethy

[4.Oct.07] :. With Dexter worrying and fumbling, the second season has opened with questions.

 

Dexter

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.06] :. While Dexter provides a seductive enough surface, it doesn't lose sight of the ugliness "deep inside."

 

The Brothers (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Facing his boys on the basketball court, where they go to sweat, score, and hash out their 'stuff', Terry (Shemar Moore) argues -- none too convincingly -- that his settling down is a sign of his maturity. The others are unconvinced. And so they go on to talk about it. A lot.